Oz is second largest producer of sugar cane in the world. It is cut off at the roots and the leaves are plowed under. Canes are processed at one of three plants in each town between rainbow, bundaberg, hervey bay and agnes waters.
At these plants the sugar is boiled to separate out the stocks from the liquid sugar. The leftover from the boiling process is burned to power the plant. The main byproduct of this process is molasses, used in old cooking recipes or in cattle feed to fatten them up for market OR used to give race horses a boost of energy before a race. More recently molasses has been reduced into a renewable biofuel additive for petrol fuel. Another popular byproduct of the sugar cane is Bundaberg rum: the pride of Queensland, a very strong flavored rum, compared to most.
Pine tree farming is very vastly visible in Queensland, entire landscapes consumed by non native spruce. Other crops grown in Queensland include avocado banana and the native macadamia nut. Macadamias are graded, the best at seven millimeters sent to japan, the halves used for chocolate covered Macadamias, the one millimeters are used for cereal and muesli bars.
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